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Information theory

universal lossless compression that replaces repeated strings with references to earlier occurrences.

In information theory, Lempel-Ziv compression refers to universal lossless compression that replaces repeated strings with references to earlier occurrences. This meaning comes from Ziv (1977) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[1]

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References

Ziv, J., & Lempel, A. (1977). A universal algorithm for sequential data compression. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 23(3), 337-343. https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1977.1055714

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